Awesome opportunity

We had the opportunity to visit a Jesuit ruin that was begun by a priest who also had an interest in space.  He built a telescope using quartz rocks for lenses and wrote a book that predicted the sun and moon's rising and setting times for a century.   This book was later used by the military to plan attacks.  I thought it was pretty cool that God's creation reveals such order that a man could predict sunset times in a hundred years.



Today at the ruins is a small planetarium, an interesting video presentation about the Guarani people's history of the stars, and a large, metal constellation guide.  

This is the metal constellation guide.  If you line up where you are, the time, and season, it shows you which constellations are visible to you.

Gabby and I having fun.

We are inspecting the second story of the Jesuit Mission school, standing on original wood.